WHY SO SERIOUS?! Myriad Celestia Trailer "Sparkle: Behind the Curtain" REACTION | Honkai: Star Rail

THIS MADE ME LOVE HER EVEN MORE OH MY GOD!!!!!!
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[@Absolute_Crimson]

Sparkles Lore is about to be INSANE.

[@ArchonKujo]

You're insane for commenting right after the video was just shown (but it's cool lol)

[@Luxius.]

​@@ArchonKujo and you're insane for appearing in every Honkai: Star Rail video comment section 🗿

[@Absolute_Crimson]

@@ArchonKujo At this point we won't ever stop finding each other everywhere.

[@18shailesh_]

@@ArchonKujoI literally saw you in every other hsr video😂😂

[@akinmoladuntosin8925]

@@ArchonKujo bro how do you do it? I see you everywhere

[@Kro-RissaVirus]

The implications from this trailer that absolutly nobody, not even sparkle herself, has any idea who she really is… is just amazingly cool. What a fun character.

[@Taraku43]

Sparkle is the mask she hides under, the strings that hold her, and the puppetier that controls her. Sparkle is the puppet who walks, the voice who lies and the actor on stage. Sparkle is the person we meet, the one who says the truth, and the one behind the cover. Sparkle is all of the rights, and all the wrongs of her character. She is both the mask, and the person wearing it, which just makes her so interesting cause no one knows what is the real her and what is just another one of her many lies!

[@spidey2837]

basically joker

[@Exody4n]

That is bc she didn't have a particular identity as a person before inpersonating Sparkles (her Fool character) and by the time she did so many plays & was using that mask (that is how she became and found her identity) An identity that has no real identity but multiples.

[@heilamwether8911]

Tbh, the way I interpreted her trailer, was more like that of de-recognization: she was once a person, someone who did acting as well, an act, but over time, the “mask” representing her acting, slowly started becoming her, which is why the mask started reflecting her actual emotions, leading to the end: where it started controlling her. No longer was she the actress, she *was* the character, control, and manipulated by the audience and stage, which would also lead her into despair, which is why her mask would now be that of a human face. In one way or another, this would end up being gazed By Aha, and figuring out that life was that of an act, which presumably, gave her the eyes. Once she figured this out, she was no longer bound to the stage, and the audience made to watch it, and instead, would choose to make her own stories, and use the world as her stage, and be both a puppeteer, but also, a pawn in the story. Or so I’ve kinda gotten from the trailer.. but besides that, idk🤷‍♀️ , I’m just a theorist :/

[@vietcuongnguyenle8530]

@@Taraku43 this basically is this She is she, the mask is the mask She is she, but she live under the mask She is the mask, the mask is she The mask is she,but she isn’t the mask At the end, only the mask remain, she no longer exist The mask is a new personality name sparkle This is the progress of how sparkle born and replace the original personality ( hanabi)

[@nemasisdemarini8339]

I love how this trailer made people just go, "Oh. Oh she's actually just insane."

[@joshbrosh6626]

Love how it began with when im happy you are happy When im sad you are happy When im angry you are happy mask alwats being happy Then it switched to mask doing the same as her Then it switched to being against her feelings What i got from this is she went insane the more she progressed to the point that she thinks shes the mask itself Aha what have you done youve created a monster and i love it 😂

[@diegovinicius6100]

my guess is that it shows the three stage of her life and she was the mask since the beginning, at first she hided her emotions with a smile, later she started to show her real emotions and after she started to show fake emotions like in a play, the world is a stage after all

[@joshbrosh6626]

@@diegovinicius6100 She had to start as a normal girl but the more she went into elation the more insane she got And yeah the mask first was only 1 emotion Then mirrored hers Then went oposite of hers Shes actually a complex character The more you dig in the more you question what is aha doing to the fools

[@advanceringnewholder]

@@diegovinicius6100The world is but a stage. Why cry, when you can laugh instead? For laughter is humanity's preserve. Laugh it all off, fret not, Let's just enjoy the moment.

[@advanceringnewholder]

she's the girl from 177013

[@diegovinicius6100]

i still no sure if aha has a finger on it or if they are just crazy, since he is a celestial being i bet on the last but the first might also be possible since aha do nonsensical things if it is fun for him@osh6626

[@PropertyofRaidenMei]

I love these -----> 🚩

[@harshdeepsingh4612]

These arent red flags they are called funfacts

[@northmoth]

🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩

[@Kevus093]

im colorblind

[@esmondgoh3112]

If crazy, why cute

[@Celestial-yq6hz]

Must be color blind 😆😅

[@Emmymeldo]

i cant tell if this implies Sparkle is a puppet of Aha, a Puppeteer of Aha (corrupting others to become like her) or simply insane from "becoming" sparkle for her performances so many times

[@gameb9oy]

To quote another insane jokester “I prefer for my backstory to be multiple choice”

[@cortesyes]

This definitely gives joker backstory vibes. You don’t know which one is real but they all feel real. Like, for all we know, her going insane for playing a character for too long could also be fake

[@jerson.romantico.1521]

In reality the joker is the entity of madness, I don't know if it's the same thing but that's why in comics the joker always exists, even if they kill him, he appears again As for aha, he has a twisted humor like having IX killed, which obviously didn't work, even though he doesn't seem so strong compared to other eons, Akivili even surpasses him. 😷

[@Birthday888]

I mean, none of those choices are mutually exclusive. I could see all of those things being true at the same time.

[@Epicalcaik]

@@jerson.romantico.1521 Aha gave nanook the scar on his chest so he is probably not that weak, and i'm pretty sure he sent those people to kill ix knowing they would fail just to laugh at them

[@UselessWeebtrash]

This alone makes her unskippable. Probably best Myriad Celestia so far.

[@MinaAoyamaCh]

SO REAL SO TRUE

[@unsuitable78]

PAID ACTOR@@MinaAoyamaCh

[@cry-o1436]

Nah I'm still skipping, Acheron mommy ftw

[@LuisGonzalez-pe5te]

Unskippable!? Have you not seen Acheron’s gameplay?

[@harshdeepsingh4612]

​@@LuisGonzalez-pe5tenah I'd skip acheron

[@ArchonKujo]

That suit on Sparkle looks super adorable omg

[@ExE7333]

It's a Japanese school uniform.

[@ArchonKujo]

@@ExE7333 Yeah I'm noticing that now, thanks

[@xenoemblem7]

SParkle is Ai Hoshino? oh no Spakle, don't open that door!

[@gachawings]

Mina give this guy a love too, he wants it so bad lmao 😂✨

[@ExE7333]

@@ArchonKujo She is super cute though. 100% pulling.

[@IshimurA99]

Sparkle carries the beauty of mischief and cuteness, I like that style

[@yoshistar705connormiller9]

When I first saw Sparkle in the 2.0 trailer, she instantly reminded me of Kurumi from Date A Live. And now after watching this trailer, that feeling got stronger.

[@FerociousWolf69]

True

[@gachawings]

Sparkle is cute and naughty.. That sometimes I think she really is just mix of Hu tao and Furina.. But then, again, I think she is completely different, sooo... She is just "SPARKLE" ✨.. Good luck to everyone for pulling sparkle✨❤

[@ArchonKujo]

OMG you here too?

[@lupapapalupapa5307]

She is not sparkle , but yeah she is sparkle ,

[@gachawings]

​@@ArchonKujoI'm everywhere just like u (˵ ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°˵)

[@gargoyle2423]

I was thinking more of a combo between Furina and Nahida, though it's more like a dark timeline version of Furina, if the "Performance" had broken her.

[@hilo01]

I didn't know I needed Schoolgirl Sparkle in my life

[@Gekster55]

She's the Jonkler.

[@partiallywhole]

no way, the Jonkler is in Honkai: Star Rail!?

[@motivateddad]

Is there a lore reason why she make me act unwise? Am I stupid?

[@source324]

​@@motivateddadsame brotha but I can fix her tho

[@MegaApostel]

This vid was super interesting. I was gonna pull for her anyway but this makes her even more intriguing. Can’t wait to explore more of her in the story

[@zigazav1]

I often am starved on Skillpoints, so, she'll be very helpful for my account. Can't afterall, always benefit in EVERY battle, from one of Swarm Disaster's Propagation Blessings, the Blessing that makes you get 2 Skillpoints instead of 1 if you use a Basic Attack when you have no Skillpoints.

[@furan4su17]

Up until now, I still cant unsee the cute little face with the two little dots below sparkle's eye, her nose and mouth since the story quest😭

[@Taraku43]

This implies Sparkle is both the puppetier and the puppet, the person and the mask. It is really amazing to think of!

[@zhihaoli2893]

I love this trailer and Mina's reaction so much! Besides, do remember to watch the cn and jp version, their voicelines are both insane and amazing!

[@10TailBeast]

Had just watched it before seeing that you uploaded your reaction, yea watching her get crazier as it went was good

[@BlackStartx]

*Crazy Furina* does not exist. *Crazy Furina* cannot hurt you. *Crazy Furina* and "All The World's My Stage":

[@ghostking44]

here before the thumbnail

[@deltaspecies1697]

This reminded me of Nahida's teaser demo but only crazier and unhinged.

[@Someone-km3mx]

Sort of like a mix of nahida’s teaser and Fontaine archon quest with the scenes n stuff

[@anguyen4576]

You’re so right! It was prolly the most interesting celestia trailer so far

[@Buno-Bun]

If you put subtitles on, you could see wich performance it was on. On the 1st performance, she was acting like sparkle. On the 99th she was reflecting like sparkle. On the 990th she becomes sparkle. And you can see this because her mask becomes more and more human like.

[@unsuitable78]

What an original thumbnail picture! I wonder which other geniuses decided to use that frame too?

[@nxtz8712]

Watched the thumbnail edit live😭

[@v.emiltheii-nd.8094]

My girl...why do I feel like protecting her despite her gremliness?

[@Wingedlight-nn4hl]

I was already set on pulling for her due to her kit and aesthetic but this trailer just makes me wanna pull for her even more. I can’t wait 🎭

[@jams_at_vans]

She's twisted, we love her ❤

[@HazeOvO]

Love how the ending suggested that she can be anyone anywhere at any time and we would have no idea. And her having no motive aside from wanting to entertain herself makes it even more likely she would do something like that just because she can.

[@EzraGenesis1]

Its funny, in the Herta image, Sparkle was actually Peppy. You could see her hair ornaments on Peppy's head

[@travistjmacmccollum]

The Huohuo one is still my favorite because I love that little bean, but this one is probably the best. The progression is so unsettling that the ending is just perfect.

[@wqi09]

My beloved mask. When I'm happy, you're smiling. When I'm angry, you're smiling. When I'm sad, you're smiling. You're like a veil that I can hide under, The one under the veil is Sparkle. My beloved mask. When I'm happy, you're smiling. When I'm angry, you're screming. When I'm sad, you're crying. You're like a mirror showing reflection, The one on the mirror is Sparkle. My beloved mask. When I'm happy, you're screaming. When I'm angry, you're crying. When I'm sad, you're smiling. You're like a face staring at me, I am not Sparkle. No, I'm Sparkle. Who's the Real Sparkle?

[@DusDusDus]

At this moment, the real Sparkle just doesn't exist

[@Joowongacha]

This reminded me of Nahidas teaser, the "it's you, my beloved mask" was very similar to "I dreamed today was my birthday" , you know?

[@astrolord4325]

“If I'm going to have a past, I prefer it to be multiple choice!” -Sparkle, probably

[@mekolayn]

Pretty good at showing how insane is Sparkle and how much of a psycho she is. Like yeah, she isn't a sociopath, she's just an insane psychopath

[@habibicat3492]

Sorry Sparkle for my funds are for Archeron

[@mikaschneider1286]

Mina your saying at every new trailer that that is your favorite i cant keep up 😅🤣

[@rillzy9637]

Live thumbnail reaction 😱

[@autobotoctolingthomasho3362]

i wonder if sparkle's faceplate(alternate hairstyle before she goes coo coo crazy) was acctually pela's

[@chromiiayt3044]

Watched this masterpiece of a thumbnail being made live

[@rovicmarquina6345]

Can't wait to pull for her for my Imbibitor Qingque ✌️

[@Sparkly935]

I can’t wait for Sparkle anymore 😭😭😭 I LOVE HER

[@novatm13]

So what i got from this is that there's a futuristic/cyberpunk Japan themed planet? I'm assuming that's where Kafka and Silverwolf are/were in that one cutscene with them onlooking a city of neon lights.

[@OptimisticpersonXD]

I think that city is Taiyaki

[@chanvax2111]

Isn't it that planet where the astral express crashed onto Taikiyan stadium ? And they were forced to do community service for a long time. (It was mentionned two times, first one by Dan Heng when we first set foot on Jarilo 6 right before we met sampo under the snow and 2nd one in Penacony in that Dreams bubble where Pom-pom kept going crazy at akivili) There is also a planar ornament set named Taikiyan, and it has lore related to the planet you can read it.

[@shinbeet.5708]

The one where Kafka and Silverwolf where at was Punklorde This is probably Taikiyan

[@novatm13]

@@chanvax2111 i must have missed this! Is it somewhere in the new story atlas introduced in 2.0?

[@chanvax2111]

@@novatm13 I don't think you can read past dialogues in HSR yet. But you can easily find both dialogues in youtube.

[@Jinhastur]

Sparkle is Furina's bad end if she went insane on those 500 years

[@Zolwiol]

The first Myriad Celestia is still my fav but when it comes to character focused ones this one takes the cake.

[@Taruan]

Great video to wake up to! Super hype for Sparkle now

[@Burnerhit]

Love the thumbnail!

[@ZerkaiGG]

She is 100% an Emanator of Aha in my opinion, before it showed herself looking at her bound self, the mask staring down at her beforehand felt like 'An Aeon turning their gaze' to her.

[@lovelywarriorsoffriendship8804]

The "real Sparkle" is the truthworthy, kind and pure Sparkle that goes to school and doesn't bully Shindoine ♥

[@acdatpb]

She's possessed, she doesn't know who she is anymore

[@maccavann8519]

I didn’t know sparkle would be so complex I thought she was just a troll but there’s more under the mask, figuratively and literally.

[@Shin-gn7ng]

0:21 u forgot that in 1.4 Jingliu & Topaz both got their own celestia trailer

[@al103]

To ruin mood: and all this time real cute sad Sparkle that wanted to hind from world behind the mask is screaming inside ~SPARKLE!!!~ And it's unlikely that we'll ever deal with her.

[@aquatazer]

I was already going for E1S1 of her, and this Myriad Celestia has made me want to go for E2 even more now. She’s just perfect, I don’t normally find myself drawn to villainous characters but she’s very cute and the insanity makes her better.

[@zarijemilutinovic3273]

"you are my special" 🗣🗣🗣🗣

[@Kangstor]

Plot twist the Herta doll we got in team is actually Sparkle!!!!!!

[@captainj9424]

In the screen under her hair you can see what looks like Constance's skirt and if you look at her art she has the same dots under her eyes 🤯

[@orrthehunter]

I see Mihoyo making that Mirai Nikki reference. Also, I like we are getting a glimps art what maybe is the Japan theme world in this trailer.

[@hyperion3808]

Mirai Nikki mentioned let's goo. Yeah Sparkle's (maybe Acheron's too) home planet seems like space Japan (Izumo). I hope Astral Express goes to Izumo next.

[@-Theo-]

@@hyperion3808 It looks to be a modern city though, which might be too close to Penacony. I’d rather see something completely different from the worlds we’ve had so far

[@hyperion3808]

@@-Theo- ikr, i also want something different, something like Sumeru Rainforest or even the Desert wouldn't be too bad but Star Rail theme is Futuristic Space Fantasy so one can only hope 😞

[@cry-o1436]

SO THATS WHERE I REMEMBER IT FROM

[@-Theo-]

@@hyperion3808 I would love space Sumeru too haha

[@remnant4484]

3:10 No way she's doing the Gasai Yuno face. 3:54 She's reminding me of Kurumi from Date A Live idk why.

[@FerociousWolf69]

She give me Joker vibe than Kurumi cause kurumi spread chaos for a reason but joker spread chaos without a care in the world

[@Kerogoth]

This trailer gives me the vibe that Sparkle has worn so many faces over her years that she's lost sight of who she herself is. It wouldn't surprise me if part of her arc is going to be us helping her find herself. Assuming she cares and isn't perfectly content going down the Joker-lite route, because there was a *lot* of Killing Joke inspired dialogue in there.

[@StrawberryProteinShake]

Don't forget to like follow and share let's get to 50 billion views!

[@wqi09]

At first, she's only *playing the Sparkle* , the character on stage. By the 99th performance, she start *reflecting the Sparkle* , immersing into the character. By the 990th performance, she is *becoming the Sparkle* , she start losing herself. Right now, she *is the Sparkle* , the character itself, with its own emotion.

[@marupurusaivamsi4802]

At starting i was like wtf pela doing in sparkle trailer 😂

[@senakumara8203]

you know it's a good trailer when mina doesn't pause the vid constantly

[@ShadowDweller_YT]

The literal embodiment of "Becoming the Mask" on steroids. And we're all here for it.

[@doodoo4956]

This gives off the same vibes as Nahida's birthday video. I love it so much

[@andrefaelnar]

Already saved up 60 wishes hoping to get her early guaranteed soon

[@FontainesNumber1Idol]

Finally mono-quantum!

[@SirePuns]

They say she has too many red flags. Fortunately for me, red is my favorite color.

[@_reil]

This is my interpretation of this trailer First stage(1st performance): Sparkle(the mask) just a mask, it always smile. Second stage(99th performance): Sparkle(the mask) become herself and imitating herself Third stage(990th performance): Sparkle(the mask) have own feelings now and become separate entity with Sparkle.

[@zigazav1]

So, you know how one of your thumbnails has the words "Red Herring" on it and displays both Black Swan and Sparkle on it? After watching this video, KZbin end of video sequence where they display thumbnails of other videos after the video is completely over, lagged for me. Giving a few moments when I only saw that video's thumbnail among a sea of blankness into black, before KZbin corrected itself there, and displayed the video thumbnails that it should. Which, after Sparkle's creepy trailer, just seemed ominous

[@EveCurseBearer]

Mina cooked Soo hard on the thumbnail 🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@JosephDT-z8d]

Thumbnail goes hard 😮

[@XarantaurTheWitness]

See. The happy cheery ones are usually crazy (cept for yoimiya she's just happy) I did love how unsettling it got towards the end as if there's something hidden beneath her skin 😱

[@kaifXD]

I literally want a mask, cuz I can't express my feeling for her when I get her, she's just pretty much everything for me right now....

[@CallMeGatchaJoe]

More and more I think she is becoming my new favorite character!

[@randomstrategygaming9399]

I love the color theme it's gets better and better ever patch

[@animefanrk2k]

Sparkle is a funny little friend who obviously steps on and off the stage at her own whimsy~~~

[@plill0_wmcfethers708]

this could be the best character trailer yet

[@PrincessStabbityPLS]

No, *I* am Sparkle. I'm so happy to see a perfectly hinged and thriving character for once. She reminds me so much of HI3 Seele. Just a sweet cinnamon bun who can do no wrong

[@qaztim11]

Our mental health queen

[@sacablanc]

I had to look at the video 2 times to completly understand the mask part lol

[@sakuna7026]

Im just sparkle The one wearing the veil, thats sparkle The one in the mirror is sparkle Im not sparkle

[@krissdm4157]

Sparkle speed racer lore let's goooooo

[@maddlad_l5257]

As the Joker said, “If I’m going to have a past, I prefer it to be multiple choice!”

[@bloodthirst2ez]

I lost my 50/50 for Black Swan to Welt, and although Sparkle seems like she will be a good character to have, I gotta save up for who is my favorite character in the game so far, which is Acheron. I have NEVER gone for eidolons before, but I want Acheron so much that I gotta get not only her and her LC, but also her E1. At least that lost 50/50 will give me a guaranteed Acheron to start off with.

[@dlwk1988]

holy the VA really nail it for sparkle. i think she is the first that made me pull just for her personality & VA alone

[@razemento4092]

Sparkle with glasses 😍😍😮

[@sofialu226]

Of course I am pulling her! I wanted her since her Drip Marketing, before knowing anythig, and the more we knew the more I wanted her!!! 3 MORE DAYS!!

[@ZerkaiGG]

WAIT WE NEVER GOT THAT HERTA PUPPET BACK THAT WENT MISSING IN 1.6!

[@ThasasinGunChodJai]

She is kurumi tokisaki 100%.

[@ferroishere1103]

Happy Birthday Spar--Nahida🙃

[@kg_francis]

"Fix her? Nah, you can't fix perfection"😂

[@xelasneko]

This trailer is incredible!

[@yukimisouzou3036]

what i took from this trailer is that it's sparkle's background story? maybe she was an actress playing as 'sparkle' but then she plays as her more n more, that she starts to loss her identity n became sparkle. but im just guessing

[@vlauthoring]

BRO. EVERYONE IN HERE MUST BE CUTE OR HOT THERE’S NO IN BETWEEN

[@zloy_tatarin7002]

Sorry Sparkle, maybe on rerun. Acheron looks just too good...

[@paladinfreind591]

In need of the skins rn that suit and her hairstyle looks awesome and the glasses too I need that skin

[@Dashinater]

I got "Sparkle is the mask therefore the wearer is also Sparkle" vibes from this

[@nyankosoldier5156]

Me before PV: oh it's about Sparkle. Me after PV: WHO is sparkle?

[@inogami-v1v]

Her in school uniform feels like a Kurumi vibes from date a live